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There was one plan of the White House Plumbers that never came to fruition. It involved the theft of Patricia Ellsberg’ s dental records. This was my own idea—not Haldeman’ s, not Hunt’ s, not Liddy’ s—they were satisfied with obtaining the records of Daniel Ellsberg’ s psychiatrist. But | remembered that the first time Alger Hiss confronted Whittaker Chambers, he requested to see his teeth. Hiss explained to me that he suspected Chambers might be someone he had known years before, and he wanted to see his teeth to make sure. Well, that recollection inspired me. We were able to obtain the dental records of Ellsberg’ s wife, all right, but did not have the Opportunity to use them in helping to prove that she was guilty of espionage. | could not imagine exactly how we were going to achieve this but | did know that, whatever, it would be accepted by the public simply because the charge itself was so “off the wall.” How odd that Whittaker Chambers, the dignified translator of Bambi, had been asked to publicly show his teeth as if he were some kind of stud at a horse show. | have never been able to forget that moment. zk ke HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015128